[UCLA-LUG] Changing your login shell

[chris]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Glenn Glazer wrote: 

> Well, if you have root access, you could just edit the last field of your
> /etc/password file.
> 
> Otherwise, and perhaps more safely, have a .cshrc file present in your
> directory and no .profile.  On some UNIXes, this is sufficient.  Otherwise,
> create a .login file that has the two lines:
> 
>          csh
>          source ./.cshrc 

that won't work.  "csh" will execute csh.  when csh is done and exits,
then it'll try to run "source ./.cshrc" back in ksh.  if there is no other
way to do it, then you could probably get away with having your .profile
execute something like

  exec /usr/local/bin/tcsh

or wherever you have tcsh sitting.


-chris